Scott Selfon

Hi guys,
Great jobs once again on the final projects, they're all looking fabulous! I'm looking forward to seeing them in their final versions. Reminder that our final will be Monday 5/7 at 2 pm - should be pretty short and painless.

Here's that "interactive" piece of music I was showing on Friday. These kinds of visualizations for how a dynamic score works are quite useful for helping audition and understand the implementations; I've seen similar graph-looking scores in game audio tools as well.

That about covers it for the semester. As always, if you have any questions about the final projects or final exam, please shoot Vince or myself an e-mail. Thanks!
-Scott

Hi guys,
Here is last week's "lecture" (aka playing a few games and talking about the audio). No slides or anything for these, but hopefully the audio helps jog memories...

4/13/07 Lecture - Audio Case Studies (MP3)
-Scott

Hi guys,
Here are the (last!) lecture notes - see everyone next week, looking forward to seeing and hearing what we've been up to on our final projects!

14. Working in Game Audio (PDF)
14. Working in Game Audio podcast (MP3)

And here's the 3-part article I referenced by Jim Charne on game audio rights and royalties and such.
-Scott

Hi guys,
Here are this week's lecture notes.

Case Studies (PDF)
Lecture (MP3)

Don't forget to bring an audio brief for next week, and to start on an asset-tracking spreadsheet to submit with your final assignment. Thanks!
-Scott

Here are last week's slide handouts - remember that we'll be primarily working on our final projects from here on out, and sharing them either during the last week of class (April 27) or during final exam time (May 7).

10. The Final Mix (PDF)
Lecture part 1 (MP3)
Lecture part 2 (MP3)

-Scott

Hi folks,
For those who want something a bit more mellow than crazy space battle stuff, here is a downloadable sample for XNA Game Studio Express - you'd still use XACT to create the content. There are a few less triggers than in 'Space War', but there's definitely some cool opportunities for expansions and more subtle sound design if you're interested.

http://creators.xna.com/Education/StarterKits.aspx

-Scott

Hi folks,
Sorry this was late getting out - last week's podcast and lecture notes!

Lecture: Part 1 (MP3)
Lecture: Part 2 (MP3)
Lecture notes (PDF)

-Scott

Hi folks,
Here are this week's lecture notes and recording.

Week 7 Lecture Notes (3D and multichannel) [PDF]
Lecture recording, part 1 (3D) [MP3]
Lecture recording, part 2 (multichannel) [MP3]

A little bit more on the midterm [insert scary music again] - we'll likely have 3-4 questions short-answer questions from each lecture this semester, so I'd recommend reviewing the lecture notes and drilling down into the podcasts where you want more detailed information. As always, if any questions come up during the review, please feel free to e-mail Vince and/or myself.

The week after the midterm is GDC, so since I'll likely be ranting in a lecture or panel there at the time, we may do a pre-recorded lecture - more on that as we get closer. That would also potentially give an extra opportunity for folks to do the 5.1 listening assignment during that lecture time.
-Scott

Hi folks,
Here are today's lecture notes - see you next week!

Lecture Notes (PDF)
Lecture (MP3)

-Scott

Hi guys,
Here are this week's lecture notes and recording. Hope the lab was clear enough from those screen shots I put in the slides - we'll keep working to figure out a good remote desktop-type strategy as we go.

Lecture (MP3)
Lecture notes (PDF)

-Scott